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“This, as presented on the floor, does nothing to bring down crime, does nothing to promote public safety and, in fact, is not holding the (criminals) accountable for the laws that they broke along the way. This is absurd. This is not what we need to do to bring down crime,” said state Rep. Avery Bourne, a Republican from Morrisonville who is running for lieutenant governor in the June 28 primary.

Brown led police on a long high-speed chase, exceeding 100 mph, before officers ran him off the road on I-55 near Bloomington, about 140 miles from Rockford. He kept driving through a farm field before his car struck a concrete ditch and came to a sudden stop. After a five-hour standoff in which police fired tear gas, Brown was arrested, and treated for injuries including a broken wrist, damaged heel and broken vertebra.

In addition to the wage violations, Sanders, who is Black, also alleged discrimination in the lawsuit. He was demoted from lead bartender to on-call server and faced difficulty advancing in the workplace because of his race. When he was demoted, a director told him she was eliminating the position, according to the lawsuit, and hired a white man for the role two months later.

From August 2016 to May 2017, Solis wore a hidden wire and secretly recorded meetings with Burke, the then-powerful Finance Committee chairman and dean of the City Council. Many of the early conversations had to do with the massive renovation of the Old Main Post Office in Solis’ 25th Ward, which had also been a focus of the investigation of Solis, according to court records.

Many other names have been discussed as possible 2023 mayoral candidates, including Chicago Ald. Roderick Sawyer, 6th, and Ald. Brian Hopkins, 2nd. Others include former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas, state Reps. Kam Buckner and La Shawn Ford, Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates, former city Building Commissioner Judy Frydland and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson.

To complete the roster, Poles has six draft picks and then will add a combination of veteran free agents and undrafted rookies to reach the 90-man limit, likely by early May. Even if the Bears add 15 undrafted rookies, which would be a high number, that would leave them with close to nine spots for veterans and street free agents, most of whom will sign one-year deals for the minimum or close to it.